Greenplum Announces Data Warehouse Solution on EMC CLARiiON: San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) May 4, 2009 — Greenplum, a leading provider of database software for the next generation of data warehousing and analytics, today announced a data warehouse solution based on Greenplum Database and EMC CLARiiON networked storage systems. The solution greatly increases performance and scalability of large-scale data warehouse systems. Greenplum highlights the solution within the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Competency Center. The solution provides an optimized storage area network (SAN) that addresses emerging challenges related to data warehouse and business intelligence deployments. By leveraging data center standards, Greenplum offers a much more cost-effective data warehouse solution compared to proprietary and costly appliances. Read More…

StrategicOne Delivers Dashboards to CRM Clients Using Tableau’s Rapid Fire: Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid fire business intelligence software and data visualization software, today announced that StrategicOne implemented Tableau to provide client-facing business dashboards and customer relationship management (CRM) analytics. StrategicOne is a proven leader in CRM analytics and serves clients including The Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Focus on the Family, Hallmark, Payless ShoeSource and Coca-Cola. A free seminar titled “Implementing Effective and Affordable BI”  will take place Thursday May 7 in Overland Park, Kan. to showcase how StrategicOne leveraged best practices in data visualization and rapid BI deployment to provide better results for clients. Read More…

Microsoft Provides Umniah with Business Intelligence Solution: Amman - Microsoft provided Umniah with a Business Intelligence (BI) solution to assist Umniah the telecommunications operator improve its business performance and competitive position in the Jordanian market by driving better decision making. This comes as part of a continuation of Microsoft’s partnership with Umniah, where Microsoft technologies are an enabler to driving Umniah’s innovation and dynamism in the market, and allow Umniah to continuously upgrade the services it provides to its customers. Read More…

Jedox Unveils Next Evolution Of Palo: Palo BI Suite 3.0: FREIBURG, GERMANY - (April 28, 2009) - Jedox, an international software company that develops and markets commercial, open source-based planning, analysis and reporting solutions, today announced the availability of Palo BI Suite 3.0, a complete in-memory based corporate performance management solution that enables a ’single version of truth’ for data-driven enterprises, business divisions and the open source community. Available as a community or enterprise version, Palo BI Suite 3.0 is now also available on Amazon EC2, making it the first BI solution to fully operate on a cloud. Read More…

Serious Analytics: If you’re an advertiser in need of some serious analytics, you’ve probably been watching for our Yahoo! Web Analytics enterprise tool-and you’ll be glad to know that it’s now available for free to search and display advertisers supported by a Yahoo! account team. If you haven’t been watching for it, you may wonder why you should care. “Yahoo!’s emerging Web Analytics service surpasses Google in several key categories relevant to enterprises,” says a recent report from independent analyst firm CMS Watch. Search advertisers can use Yahoo! Web Analytics to track performance of their campaigns-not just Yahoo! Search Marketing, but campaigns on other search engines, display campaigns, even email campaigns-from click to conversion. Read More…

Magnum Host Alternative Data Webinar: ATLANTA, GA - Magnum, an industry leader in credit analytics, decisioning applications and professional consulting services will host a Webinar on Alternative Data Sources on Wednesday, May 20th at 1:00pm EST. Joining Magnum will be Executive Vice President Mark Doman of eBureau, Paul DeSaulniers, Director of Credit Decisioning at Lexis-Nexis and Michelle Wheeler Vice President of Partner Relationships at ID Analytics. Read More…

Ribbon Interface Simplifies Data Acquisition and Analysis: The latest version of HBM’s catman AP features a modern user interface and additional functions to simplify data acquisition and analysis work. Based on the ribbon-style menus developed for Microsoft Office 2007, the interface benefits users by grouping similar tasks so that the correct tool can be more easily selected. The new version 3.0 of catman AP supports HBM’s new QuantumX amplifiers as well. Complex menus have been replaced by function keys that are sorted by topic. Icons are of different sizes depending on their relative importance. The icons are combined with text and tooltips to help users select the correct analysis tool; catman AP 3.0 can operate with the Windows Vista operating system. Read More…

CTS Awarded Microsoft Business Intelligence Competency: (PRWEB) May 1, 2009 — Computer Technology Solutions, Inc. (CTS), a leader in providing world-class technology services, is proud to announce the attainment of the Business Intelligence (BI) Competency with a specialization in Performance Management within the Microsoft Partner Program for a total of five current Microsoft competencies. CTS, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner based in Birmingham, Alabama with offices in Mobile, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, holds Microsoft competencies in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Custom Development Solutions, Information Worker Solutions, and Business Process Management. Read More…

IBM Plans Five Business Analytics Centers: IBM has announced plans to open five new Analytics Solution Centers that it said could create as many as 4,000 new jobs.It said centers in Tokyo, London, and New York will staff more than 100 consultants and mathematicians each, serving clients seeking a system-level view of financial risk across markets. A center in Washington, DC will offer IBM’s Economic Recovery Fund Tracking analytics to monitor and report on stimulus spending. A center in Beijing will focus on rail and transportation analytics. Read More…

Johnston McLamb to Aid American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Compliance: CHANTILLY, Va., May 04, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Johnston McLamb announced today a new offering to satisfy government agencies’ mandatory reporting requirements and meet the deadlines of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The management and technology consulting firm is applying their geospatial business intelligence (BI) expertise to help both federal and state agencies meet the still-evolving requirements of the ARRA and the February 18 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo. Read More…

Ingram Micro’s Seismic Services Offer Strategic Advantages to Channel Partners: DALLAS, May 4 — Enabling channel partners to grow their services businesses faster, smarter and more profitably, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced a number of new Seismic services and business tools at the 2009 “Make Your Mark” Seismic Partner Conference in Dallas. Available exclusively to Seismic partners in the U.S. and Canada, these four new and highly anticipated announcements include Seismic Epicenter, Seismic Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard, Seismic Global NOC (Network Operations Center) and Seismic Instant Recovery On Demand by CA. Each new offering provides a unique business advantage to Seismic partners and enables them to earn higher margins, deliver enhanced client value and build a much more collaborative and profitable managed services practice, without introducing additional infrastructure and labor expenses. All four new offerings will be demonstrated during the Seismic “Make Your Mark” Technology Fair. Read More…

Quantivo Analysis of Omniture SiteCatalyst Data Delivers Behavioral Insights: SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire - May 4, 2009) - eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit - Quantivo, the leader in on-demandbehavioral analytics, today announced its customer behavior analytics SaaS solution has been optimized to easily integrate data from Omniture SiteCatalyst. SiteCatalyst customers will now be able to seamlessly transfer data to Quantivo in order to identify valuable customer segments and behavior patterns. Online businesses can dramatically improve visitor monetization by quickly segmenting and understanding customer behavior patterns from a combination of website visits, purchase transactions, marketing responses and other events. This seamless integration of Omniture SiteCatalyst data makes it now possible for Omniture customers to realize fast, flexible and cost-effective customer behavior analytics by using Quantivo. Read More…

Haskell Maximizes ERP Investments With Information Builders’ Technology: NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - May 4, 2009) - In the construction business, an economic downturn can hit with the impact of a sledgehammer. For Haskell, one of the foremost design-build organizations in the U.S., using business intelligence (BI) and integration technology from Information Builders, an independent leader in BI solutions, helps employees track costs and improve performance at a time when every dollar counts. Haskell has discovered many advantages to using WebFOCUS and technology from iWay Software, an Information Builders company and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, to augment its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. By creating a self-service reporting environment that delivers 80 to 90 percent of the information most business users need, the mid-sized company is making workers more capable while minimizing IT support issues. Read More…

MobileFusion to Present SmartFusion Intelligent Analytics Platform to DoD: PITTSBURGH, May 4 /PRNewswire/ — MobileFusion proudly announces its participation in the upcoming Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative (DeVenCI) workshop at the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center. The event will be held in San Diego, CA, on May 5 and May 6, 2009, and will feature presentations of a wide range of technologies by innovative companies to representatives of the Department of Defense, Naval Surface Forces (SURFOR), Navy Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR), and 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF). MobileFusion, one of twenty companies presenting by invitation-only at the event, will discuss and demonstrate its SmartFusion Intelligent Analytics platform, which combines disparate sensors and data streams — in a way similar to the brain’s combining of the five senses — to deliver enhanced real time decision making. SmartFusion is an embeddable system that collects, filters, and processes data, detecting and assessing complex patterns, trends, links, events, and objects of interest autonomously, in the real world. Read More…

SAS Web Analytics Solution Turns Raw Data Into Knowledge: CARY, NC  (May 04, 2009)  -  Organizations are increasingly struggling to apply the same level of analysis to Web site data that is routinely applied to data from their mainstream operations. There is also the challenge of integrating and analyzing online and offline data together. Today SAS, the leader in business analytics, launched a new version of SAS Web Analytics to help companies apply forecasting capabilities to Web data that will help them to go beyond “what happened?” to predict “what will happen next?” Read More…

IBM Acquires Exeros Assets: SANTA CLARA, CA and ARMONK, NY - May 5, 2009 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of the assets of Exeros, a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, California, that provides leading data discovery software.  Financial details were not disclosed.  The acquisition further strengthens IBM’s Information Agendastrategy to help companies turn data into a strategic asset, and provides new capabilities for IBM’s recently announced Business Analytics Optimization Consulting practice. Read More…